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VL
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Language-based support for computational thinking
This paper explores the potential for simplified programming languages to support the development of computational thinking skills in non-programmers. We suggest that novice progr...
Katherine Howland, Judith Good, Keiron Nicholson
VL
1993
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
A Visual Logic Programming Language Based on Sets and Partitioning Constraints
This paper presents a new programming language named SPARCL that has four major elements: it is a visual language, it is a logic programming language, it relies on sets to organiz...
Lindsey L. Spratt, Allen L. Ambler
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Foundations of a pattern language based on Gestalt principles
Traditionally, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a highly interdisciplinary field bridging the research between psychological research and computer science. This paper places gr...
Karl Flieder, Felix Mödritscher
DSN
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Transactional Rollback for Language-Based Systems
Language run-time systems are routinely used to host potentially buggy or malicious codelets — software modules, agents, applets, etc. — in a secure environment. A number of t...
Algis Rudys, Dan S. Wallach
POPL
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A probabilistic language based upon sampling functions
As probabilistic computations play an increasing role in solving various problems, researchers have designed probabilistic languages that treat probability distributions as primit...
Sungwoo Park, Frank Pfenning, Sebastian Thrun